I earned a Bachelors's degree in Consumer Science with a minor in Marketing from East Tennessee State University in 1993 and a Master of Education degree from Milligan College in 1997.

Experience

I have worked in the Bristol Tennessee City School System since the Fall of 2002. For the first seven years I worked in the Alternative School, which later became The Learning Center. In 2009, I was offered the opportunity to join the Vance Middle School team, and gratefully accepted. While I have taught across the social studies curriculum from fifth grade through high school, I love teaching history, government, economics, sociology, and current events, to name a few, I have always have a love for geography, maps, and culture studies that come with it.

My main goal outside of teaching the 7th grade social studies curriculum, is to enlighten and expose students to situations that they are most likely to experience in the real world, and thusly making them the most productive citizens they can be.

Bio

I live outside Jonesborough,TN ( 33 miles one-way to work) in Tennessee's oldest community with my wife and 3 children (the best 4 things that have ever happened to me) cats, honeybees, and most recently...chickens.

The Bristol Tennessee City School System does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age.